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Kevin Basset
Personal blog · kevinbasset.medium.comprogrammingwebdata
Kevin Basset's personal blog at kevinbasset.medium.com covers programming, web and data. Since 2021, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “I used Benford’s law to analyze Covid-19 in 113 countries (2020)”. The last post was in 2023, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this Medium author's Benford's law analysis of data, which one commenter cites as the basis for their own analysis of the Shanghai 2022 lockdown deaths.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- I used Benford’s law to analyze Covid-19 in 113 countries (2020)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-02-15
- Why haven’t PWAs killed native apps yet?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-09-08
What Hacker News says?
I based it on this. https://kevinbasset.medium.com/i-used-benfords-law-to-analyz... Tough both are reporting on old data which tells nothing (good or bad) about the current situation.
Comment linking /i-used-benfords-law-to-analyze-covid-19-in-113-countries-1a1194668069
on “The silenced deaths of the Shanghai 2022 lockdown”Submitted I used Benford’s law to analyze Covid-19 in 113 countries (2020) as a story · 104 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why haven’t PWAs killed native apps yet? as a story · 82 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't upload your PWA to the app stores as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why haven't PWAs killed native apps yet? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted PWA is going to break in August 2021 as a story · 2 points
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